作者：RobertKolker
出版社：Doubleday
副标题：InsidetheMindofanAmericanFamily
出版年：2020-4-7
页数：400
定价：USD39.45
装帧：Hardcover
ISBN：9780385543767
内容简介
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The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science’s great hope in the quest to understand the disease.
Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don’s work with the Air Force brought them to Colorado, where their twelve children perfectly spanned the baby boom: the oldest born in 1945, the youngest in 1965. In those years, there was an established script for a family like the Galvins–aspiration, hard work, upward mobility, domestic harmony–and they worked hard to play their parts. But behind the scenes was a different story: psychological breakdown, sudden shocking violence, hidden abuse. By the mid-1970s, six of the ten Galvin boys, one after another, were diagnosed as schizophrenic. How could all this happen to one family?
What took place inside the house on Hidden Valley Road was so extraordinary that the Galvins became one of the first families to be studied by the National Institute of Mental Health. Their story offers a shadow history of the science of schizophrenia, from the era of institutionalization, lobotomy, and the schizophrenogenic mother to the search for genetic markers for the disease, always amid profound disagreements about the nature of the illness itself. And unbeknownst to the Galvins, samples of their DNA informed decades of genetic research that continues today, offering paths to treatment, prediction, and even eradication of the disease for future generations.
With clarity and compassion, bestselling and award-winning author Robert Kolker uncovers one family’s unforgettable legacy of suffering, love, and hope.
作者简介
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Robert Kolker is the New York Times bestselling author of Lost Girls, named one of the New York Times’ 100 Notable Books and one of Publisher’s Weekly’s Top Ten Books of 2013. As a journalist, his work has appeared in New York magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek, The New York Times Magazine, Wired, GQ, Oprah, and Men’s Journal. He is a National Magazine Award finalist and a recipient of the Harry Frank Guggenheim 2011 Excellence in Criminal Justice Reporting Award from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York.
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又一本记者写书的优秀代表 – fascinating content, thorough reporting, and beautiful storytelling. 但是这个题目，A不American跟内容有什么关系？
a heartbreaking story intertwined w research & debate on nurture vs nature abt schizophrenia (i think it’s a combo effect). Don didn’t realize his goals and Mimi was a perfectionist and a victim herse…
[有声书] 这种家庭历史一向都是最爱，而且对精神疾病一直很强的好奇，所以书一出版就赶紧入了。一家12个孩子，10个儿子2个女儿，其中6个儿子相继得了schizophrenia，Galvin一家为过去几十年医学科学界对研究schizophrenia做出了很大的贡献，整本书也是家庭历史和研究历史穿插交汇，让读者唏嘘不已。父母对患病孩子的“偏爱”甚至不惜健康孩子的安危（最小的两个女儿成人前受过患病哥哥的…
一家人太不容易了。非常敬佩最小的妹妹Lindsay，选择跟原生家庭和自己的童年和解，非常了不起。看到结尾会发现Mimi某种程度上也算伟大，这母女两人身上有种非常非常坚韧的东西。还有DeLiSi， 以及lindsay的女儿kate，有钱太太nancy，这本书里的几个女性角色全都让人印象深刻。最后致敬Freedman和DeLiSi和其他科学研究者，it is people just like them…
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